Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Pundits and bloggers in the nonprofit sector often lament the inability of social media to raise money for nonprofits. widgets and apps have yet to raise large amounts in online dollars for most nonprofits, but that doesn’t mean that social media is not resulting in large amounts of dollars raised online. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Care2

MAY 18, 2010

These social-media widgets have fast become wallpaper on almost all charitable sites. To answer this question, get a sense of how much money nonprofits are actually raising via social media and garner some advice on best practices in using these tools, I went straight to the expert. Are nonprofits raising money via social media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Embedded giving is easy for individuals to do, and probably gives them an added psychological boost to know that spending money on purchasing something is not just an act of commerce, it's an act of generosity. The idea here is that if you purchase an HP product, they'll donate 4% to one of seven charities, including the Red Cross.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Volunteer Grants Nonprofits can always use volunteers, and with volunteer grants, companies can support their employees and nonprofits by donating money based on where their employees choose to donate their time. Another way to set up a volunteer grant program is to donate money to the nonprofits employees volunteer at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2006

via Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog Network for Good today launches their charity badges with some great support from Yahoo! You can select the recipient from the charities registered on Network for Good (I selected the Sharing Foundation and donations go to TSF via their NFG account). Now about the badge. s web site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

Make A Wish Donation Box in Second Life On the Web, you can become a messenger for your cause by adding a charity badge or fundraising widget to your blog or web site. But, avatars who raising money in Second Life for their causes are also spreading the word to others. I contribute to this charity in real life too.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2017

Fundly’s user-friendly platform enables anyone to set up a fundraising page to raise money for projects or causes they’re passionate about. Using Razoo’s nonprofit portal, any registered nonprofit can set up a professionally branded, completely custom charity fundraising page to collect donations at any time. PayPal Donations.

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Care2

MAY 30, 2011

The proposal would reduce the tax incentive received by many individual Americans when they donate to charities. This is according to the Money for Good report from Hope Consulting ) Frankly Congress should be creating MORE -- not FEWER -- incentives to give to charity. charities! ?.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. Now, a few critical thoughts about their charity challenge. My criticism below is intended to help such efforts have more impact on the charities. . 11 cents = $32.78

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2008

  When I was kid, our folks let us collect candy, but I also remember those orange boxes and collecting money for Unicef. So, here's the social media version of collecting money for charity on Halloween from FutureNow. widget below to charity. Every cent we collect will be sent to charity.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. – to raise money for your cause. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

Social media and the Internet have completely changed the way people donate money and discover causes they're interested in. member gives your organization access to web-based grant research tools as well as a comprehensive list of current sources of grant money. Donated Fundraising Tools from TechSoup. Becoming a GrantStation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Dank Apps (creators of the popular Lotto app ) has launched a new series of Social Change applications that allow Facebook users to raise money for a cause through advertising revenue. For every new user install on a Social Change application, Dank Apps Inc will donate 2 cents to the charity. Now that doesn't sound like much.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2009

19-25 Make a Difference Day: October 24th Step Up Women's Network: WE Volunteer Charity of the Month And 1 new post on the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship blog: 5 Ways Theatres Can Use Social Media LINK LOVE Did you know that now you don't need an iPhone to micro-volunteer with The Extraordinaries? Share your service hero story.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Kickstarter makes it clear that it isn't for direct charity or cause funding, but about project creation. – to raise money for your cause. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. And even better, through his collaboration with Google, he's made his data visualization software available to everyone through GapMinder.com , and now through Google Spreadsheets Widgets. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

"If you've ever been in bed with mosquito, you know that isn't true." She also announced that the Huffington Post has a new living section which feature the stories of people volunteering, raising money for causes they care about, and other inspirational stories. It also has widgets. My notes are here. The Challenge raised $1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

I'm curious why Tomato Nation that has a technorati rank of 18,779 compared with AVC's (Fred Wilson) rank of 865 and Tech Crunch's rank of 4 has managed to raise so much more money? From my experience, you can't simply put the widget on the side bar, announce your campaign, and go on as business as usual.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Let's begin by asking a question: "Why do donors choose to give money to one worthy cause over another?". Whether you're hosting a walk-a-thon, charity auction, or soliciting online donations for an annual fund drive, the success of your fundraising campaign lies in the success of each of the individual participants.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. And even better, through his collaboration with Google, he’s made his data visualization software available to everyone through GapMinder.com , and now through Google Spreadsheets Widgets. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Charity Water , an organization that raises money to build wells in Africa has learned the lesson. And even better, through his collaboration with Google, he’s made his data visualization software available to everyone through GapMinder.com , and now through Google Spreadsheets Widgets. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

From Nhung Son's Facebook Photos Two weeks ago, Blogger Michele Martin , set up an America's Giving Challenge widget for the Sharing Foundation to support the project over at Global Giving. The winner of this challenge will receive $50,000 to help their charity. Other bloggers have also signed up to participate and many have.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 11, 2024

Once a donor opens a DAF with a public charity, community foundation, or financial organization, they have a dedicated place to set aside funds at any time to give to nonprofits later. For one, donors can claim tax deductions any time they add money to the account. Adding a DAF widget to your donation page.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Will the money be used much further down the road? Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. Donors have more than just money to give. Or add a Twitter widget for all hashtag mentions of your campaign. Are you funding programs or operations or both?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog." " These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog. The beta launch of ChipIn , a fundraising widget for blogs, will make blog raising easier. Newly Discovered NpTech Blogs. And while we're looking at Web2.0, by Simon Pavitt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

My screencast on widgets is featured in this month's NTEN newsletter in a section pointing to " How To Build Online Community." If you have questions about widgets or want to share your organization???s Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You Can Use Data to Run More Effective Fundraising Campaigns Which of your appeals last year raised the most money? How about the names of the people who donate both their time and money to you? You might even raise money for them on your birthday. You’ve invested a lot of time and energy (not to mention money!)

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Were finding that a lot of fundraising organizations (charities, political parties, associations) need a technology that allows flexible branding, so their donors dont feel theyre being "handed off" to a separate site.but they also need something that isnt too expensive, inflexible, and hard to implement.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice. Learn more at www.call2action.com.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Call2Action's Spark™ combines video with action tools in one shareable widget. BONUS: If your NTEN Spark garners the most views, we will give away a fully functional spark to the charity of your choice. Learn more at www.call2action.com.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

What if you could significantly increase your donations with no extra money actually coming from your donors themselves? That’s the magic of matching gift programs, which enable companies to donate the same amount of money as their employees to eligible organizations. But what if that weren’t the case? Thank you for your donation!

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Qgiv

APRIL 29, 2021

Phoenix Rising Football Club Charities’ Sky Full of Stars Hybrid Event. The nonprofit raises money to stop youth violence by offering a unique activity that participants must fundraise to take part in. Their event page in Qgiv made great use of different widgets to drive donations. Need hybrid event inspiration?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2013

birthday, holiday, wedding, or charity run/walk/ride. services that include social media tools like donation widgets and email marketing services. percent per donation, which can either be added to or subtracted from the donation; Network for Good gives the proceeds from the those fees to the charity. raising money (i.e.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Causes is a terribly troubled application that provides organizations with no control over who solicits money on their behalf, bad data delivered from old 990s from GuideStar, and it’s just boring. It’s the 800 lb gorilla of the Facebook charity apps world. Without the head start given to it by Facebook it would be nothing.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Charity uses widgets to provide accountability to donors: "October 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A children's charity is using widget technology -- traditionally used with a single purpose application like updating weather or news on a Web site -- to help it show donors how their money is being used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2007

They are the types that call on friends to support their charity run or bike ride, knock on doors in the neighborhood to raise funds for a local community project, or hold a dinner party to solicit donations for a charity. Technology Makes a Difference: Widgets and social networks make existing personal fundraisers more effective. (I

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Givinga

DECEMBER 11, 2018

For example, Givinga’s custom workplace giving software has every 501c3 charity in the US in its database, which means employees don’t have to spend time researching and vetting potential donors. You can even create codes and widgets that show the Total Philanthropic Impact (TPI) of a campaign. Many analytics can also be automated.

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